[W8MWA] Who Invented Frequency Hopping?

[Bob West]

http://www.google.com/patents/US2292387

Here's an item that might make  a good topic for discussion:
Actress Hedy Lamarr was a partner in a patent for remotely control torpedos.

http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2013/09/beautiful-woman-1940s-hollywood-helped-make-wireless-possible/

During WWII the US Government was collecting ideas from inventors that might be useful in war effort.

Musician George Antheil had been working on a way to control musical instruments using a piano roll or punched tape.

Lamarr and Antheil considered applying multi-frequency signals as a method to controlling weapons systems 
(such as a torpedo) so that the control signal would be harder to jam.

Cheers,
...Bob West WA8YCD

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